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total number of prisoners in county jails in 1805 to 

 have been 3.530. of whom 235 were females. The 

 inn mii-nance of county jniU haa cost $86,87 

 maintonance of the 



salaries of jailers and guards has cost > 

 average cost per capita, $25*55. One l.u 

 and flftr-twoof the prisoner* were un-i 

 am ./ aft, 



The Boanl of Pm 1 ''>'.}'* applica- 



dunng t- .Md recom- 



meii'l.-d "l f<>r (Minion. 6 for conditional |ardon, 15 

 i. nmi 4 for rc-pite. 



Jllnliiir. The report of the director of the mint 

 ^fl6 gives the product of z\*\ "f Colorado M 

 721.830 fine ounces, valued at $14.91 l.(KM). The 

 Ymlueof ti |,185 t 2W. This 



is about on.- thinl of the output of the pr* 

 metals in the count ry. 



The receipts of gold bullion at tin- Dearer branch 

 mint show a large increase of production during 

 tin- first nine months of 1897 over the correspond - 

 1*!M!. The aggregate in IsiMi was 

 $3.138.4:W.16: in 1SH7 it was $8.888,088.. The 

 it what is estimated as a little over 

 half the State's production of the yellow metal. be- 

 cause only 'J out of the 7 smelters send tiicir bars to 

 thi* institution. 



ii- increase in the cold output," says a Colora- 

 do journal, "i- .md comes from all the 

 mining camps of UK bring in 



An estimate of the output of 1897, made in July 

 and based on the figures for the tir-t H\ months of 

 t IP- year, was as follows: Cripple Creek (Kl ! 

 $14.000.000: Ciilpin Count y. $11.000,000: San Mi- 

 gnel OoillltY. $8,000,000; Clear Cn-k County, $1,- 

 500.000: Lake County < 1.,-adv ille). $1,000.000: San 

 Juan County (Silverton). $, r )<K),0(H): Boulder Coun- 

 ty, $500.000: On ray County. $400.000: Summit 

 County, $250.000: Park County. $250,000. 



The recent introduction of processes for treating 

 low-grade ore promises greatly to increase the out- 

 put of the B 



Leadvillc is to have a reservoir on the Lake Fork 

 branch of Arkansas river, where 2.000 acres have 

 been bought for the purpose. The plan is to main- 

 tain the reservoir for storage, conduct the water 

 through pipes to the foot of the little gulch leading 

 up to Leadvillc, and there build a power house. 

 This will furnish electric power to the mines of the 

 whole dist 



The product of lead for 1896 was valued at 

 i id that of copper at $802,697. 



<.o|,|- Mining Convention. The first Interna- 

 tional Gold-Mining Convention met in Denver. July 

 7, 8, and 9. IN objects were "t.. secure such na- 

 tioiutl legislation as may be calculated to promote 

 the business interests and development of r 

 sources of tin- mining industry in North and South 

 America; to bring together "mining men and in- 

 vertotx: to increase reciprocal trade among them; 

 ~<:uas such questions as are naturally suggested 

 i objects; to cultivate acquaintance, fraternal 

 g, and hearty co-operation among the various 

 mining, commercial, and laln.r bodies represented, 

 and especially to take under advisement the impor- 

 tance of the creation by Congress of a department 

 to be known as the Department of Mine- and .Min- 

 ing, thus securing a Cabinet officer to represent an 

 interest which bffects more than one third of the 



people of the I 



L. Bradford Prince was president of the conven- 

 tion. The name of the , n was changed 

 to The International Minim: Congress, ani 

 Lake City was chosen as t lace of meet inc. 

 Papers were rend on the treatment of ores, the 

 history of various mining camps, and geological 



formations of mining districts. A resolution 

 adopted urging Congress to ..pen to minim; 



in California. \ 

 o : but a simila- 

 iing 'lie gilsonite lands of t'lah \\a- laid <.u 



Me, 



uas appointed to take steps for the 

 establishmeiii ,.f a National Department of .Mines 

 and Mining, with a Cabinet olliecr at its head, and 

 one to drall a mend tin -nN to t he mining | a \\ - \\ hieli 



Congress will be asked to pass, 



Decision. A decision gi\.n by the Supreme 

 Court in May in a . ado, in\o|\ 



(M.nirover-y over th :' tunnel-site 



and subseijueiit f veins along the line of 



the tunnel site or on ii- trrrii 



tention that a tunnel-site l<K-ai<.r ha- the n-di to 

 the possession . hat ero^, 



line of the tunnel within :{.(MK( f, , t from it- 

 which was not discovered when the tunnel \\ . 

 caled: provided, thai the tunnel-site own. i-s have 

 prosex'uted the work on the tunnel with dilii 

 And the discovery of a lode or vein from tip 

 face after the location of the tunnel will n. 

 prive the owner -f the tunnel of any j 

 \ein: provided, further, that he has dili^ 

 prosecnte(l his work on the tunnel. The d - 

 also settles the right of the O\\H.T of such tunnel to 

 locate 1,500 feet along the vein, and this |, . 

 may IM- made part ially upon one side of the point of 

 discovery of the tunnel, or entirely upon one side. 



Undines.,. -The Denver Clearing-House A- 



tion issued an ollicial statement in October-si, 

 the increase in business for six weeks of 1 

 pared with the corresponding period of the pi 

 ing year, indicating the growing activity in busi- 

 ness. The total increase f.,r -ix weeks in S 

 Mid October was *!.!'.;!. 



A Denver newspaper s ;l id in April: "Th- 

 -of money in one bank in this city ha\ 

 creased bv $8,000.000 within less than a year. In 

 other banks there has been a parallel in< ! 



Tin- l.ca<hille Strike. The miner 

 which began June 1!>, ls'16. continued until M 

 9, 1897. ending in a victory for the mine o* 

 Gov. Adams went to Leadville in January and 

 brought about a meet in LT between manag* ' 

 mines arid leaders of the strike in the }\\ 

 ing a settlement. Hoth the miners and the ov 

 made propositions, which were rejected. About the 

 middle of January tin- -real pumps that drained 

 the mines on Carbonate Hill, the center of I 

 ville's wealth, were taken out. allowing the many 

 mines there to fill with water. The l.egi 

 appointed a committee of 2 Senators ai 

 sentatives t<> in -he strike, which commit- 



tee in their report proposed apian of settlement. 

 At a meeting of the Miners' I'nion. March 9, it wafl 



decided by a vote of about 1J(M to :'.<M> to d. 

 the strike off. This action was umler-stood 

 owing to the reduction of the weekly relief allow- 

 ance to an amount barely sufficient for mea^ 

 istence.and the apparent hopelessness of any < 

 in the attitude of the managers. The expci. 

 the State for protecting property and kc. -pin- 

 by the militia was about fcMO.ow. and the . 

 niitie owners and miners of the camp \\a- estimated 

 at $4.000,000, to say nothing of the cost to 

 organizations elsewhere that were taxed for ui<l to 

 ikers. 



Public Lamia. The amount of vacant public 

 land- in the State is given as, approximately, 1 

 . : 



Kfforts have been made this year to get the case 



of t he Las Anitnas grant before'the Court of Claims. 



Me. of those old undivided tracts the title to 



which, while allegedly perfect, never has been passed 



